Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-09-14

Visit 20 81. Paul and Mipneapolis.D Bishop
Ireland further said, In regard to the In.
dians, and particularly at White Earth !:
I've ~, are getting along nicely. 30 far as
s q y concerned, he is, suppose g
Guiding Rev. Gilhlfan, Protestant, saws
Sheehan Is q good agent. A large number
OF the Indians are Catholics Il am much
pleased with the present Indian policy Of
government think it is the best we have
may choose their own religion. / think it ID
much better than the old regime, when
their religion was cut and dried for them.
We are making good citizens of the Indians,
and q they are really progressing more under
TINS administration than ever before"
The propeller Spokane arrived in
Two Harbors and the captain reports that
he was obliged to cut loose from the big
barge, David DOws, which he was towing
on account OF the violence of the storm
during Tuesday night and Wednesda y.
since then nothing has been heard of the
vessel and it is feared she has gone down
VIII all on board. The boat was built in
1851 ana has gross tonnage of about z, 900,
rates a in Inland Lloyds and is valued at
about SIC, 900: She carried five masts and
was one OF the largest, it not the largest,
schooner in the world. She was owned by
David Darlington, of Toledo, and was
numbered about fifteen men. IT. ~ .
At Brown Bow, Neb., Mrs. Sarah J.
'Overton, charged with the murder of her
husband in the early part of July last, was
found guilty and sentenced to rs wears in
the penitentiary. Mrs. Overton was the
wife OF farmer. The couple were accus-
toned to quarrel frequently, and it was
during one Of these that the crime was com
mitted. Mrs. Overton seized shotgun and
blew out her husbands brains. She then
fixed the weapon in his hands, and at the
coroner's inquest testified that he had com
mitted suicide. One of her daughters swore
thst she had seen her mother kill her
father, and it was her testimony, coupled
with circumstantial evidence, that secured
her conviction. '*.' 'i3%.+ '',f'5 So =, :
Mrs. Caroline Seal, living in Albany,
Stearns County, committed suicide. While
her husband was sick and unable to be up,
she left the house, ostensibly to do some
work, but went q short distance from the
house and hung herself to the limb of a
tree. After twenty-four hours of anxious
waiting, the invalid husband sent his
neighbors to induce them to make search
for Mrs. Seal, which they did and soon
found her within about 100 feet of her
house. The family came from Wisconsin
about year ago, and Mrs. Seals action is
said to have been on account Of family
troubles.
The second annual meeting of the
Pharmaceutical Association of South Da-
kota had two days session at Sioux Falls.
A ball and banquet were given by the citi-
zens OF the city in honor of the visitors. The
report Of the secretary of the territorial
board OF pharmacy showed over four hun
dred registered pharmacists in South Dako-
t.. the following officers we're elected for
the ensuing year. President, W. s. Breach,
Parker; hrst vice president, A. A. Bartlett,
Madison; second vice president, V. D. Diehl
Scotland; treasurer, L. T. Dunning, Sioux
Falls. The association adjourned to meet
in two days session at Huron, Aug. q,
1883. - ~
The fast mail on the Chicago, Bur.
lington & Quincy railroad ran into the
regular passenger train, westward bound,
near Alton, Iowa, Wednesday afternoon at
O'Clock. The passenger had been detained
by freight, and the fast mail failed to
notice the signal to stop. The list of injured
was chiefly confined to the sleeper on the
rear END OF t tho PASSENGER train Only one
lady and child 4 years old received
probable fatal injuries, and nine 9th rs
were injured, not dangerously, but in some
cases painfully. The accident is said to be
due to an improperly given signal to the
mail train.
The annual report of wheat handling
at Duluth, Mimi, shows large increases of
business. The year just closed exceeds the
heaviest previous year by near S,O00, 200
bushels The total movement represents
handling of Al, Oh ,O7O in elevators and about
1000, coo handled outside, or in round num-
beers 4, 0oo, 900 bushels. In this amount win
ter wheat is represented by 6S,OO4 bushels
received and shipped, the balance being all
spring wheat. OF the spring wheat receipts
15,62S,62 bushels were No. hard, and the
shipments Il, 490,4ll bushels, the balance
being of1ower grades, from II Northern
At Waterloo, Iowa, while loading Hol-
stein cattle from the Field brothers fine
stock farm to take to the Iowa state fair,
David Sees, of Cedar Falls, was gored by
bull and instantly killed. Mr.. Sees was
leading the bull by a 10 foot pole attached to
q ring in his nose. and was walking back
wards so as to watch the bull He stumbled
and fell, and before he could get up the
bull was upon him. Mr.. Sees narrowly
escaped being killed by this same animal
last year, and the owner, Mr.. Field Instantly
shot the, bull.
August Myreua, carpenter of Ka-
cnfa coroa IN g. Da%or IN